The fine-tuned universe is the hypothesis that, because "life as we know it" could not exist if the constants of nature – such as the electron charge, the gravitational constant and others – had been even slightly different, the universe must be tuned specifically for life.

2025年2月2日 · “The world is intelligible,” says Ross Douthat, recognizing something remarkable that many of us take for granted. An opinion columnist at the New York Times, Douthat has a new book coming out on religion and why “everyone should be more religious,” and he joined Jonah Goldberg on a podcast to discuss the book along with our current ...

2024年11月6日 · The main point, and the ultimate resolution of the so-called ‘fine-tuning problem’ is, as Nassim explains, that the universe is not fine-tuned for life, life is fine-tuned to the universe (and continually fine-tuning to the universe via the living system’s remarkable ability to adapt to a wide range of environments and conditions).

The Hubble telescope has captured an image of an unusual edge-on galaxy, revealing remarkable details of its warped dusty disk and showing how colliding galaxies spawn the formation of new generations of stars.

2025年2月6日 · These are the seeds of galaxies from a time when the universe was under 400,000 years old. (NASA/WMAP) The superstructures can also impact measurements of the Hubble constant, a fundamental value in cosmology that describes how fast the Universe is expanding. While galaxies are moving further apart due to expansion, they also have local ...

2 天之前 · A royal tomb belonging to an ancient Egyptian king has been unearthed, in what has been called a “remarkable” discovery by officials. A joint Egyptian-British archaeological mission identified ...

3 天之前 · It turns out that planetary systems in our galaxy exhibit remarkable diversity—some have tightly packed planets in exotic configurations; others are dominated by gas giants skimming their stars ...

4 天之前 · The "remarkable" XRT 200515 cosmic explosion observed by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. ... a rare flare from a magnetar—one of the most mysterious objects in the universe—or something ...

2022年3月24日 · Physics in the early universe are captured down to scales that are a million times smaller than the simulated regions, providing unprecedented detail on properties of early galaxies and how light from these galaxies impacted gas.

2024年11月20日 · One key feature of this map is its depiction of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs)—ripples in the distribution of matter caused by sound waves in the early universe. These ripples serve as a “cosmic ruler,” allowing scientists to measure distances across the universe with remarkable precision.